Finding that comfortable seat and ready to hold space whether you're sitting on a chair or you're sitting on a floor,
That's great you're sitting on a chair two feet firmly on the ground and your back nice and straight gives your lungs an opportunity to really feel that breath your hands can be on your knees or in your lap and we can just drop our chin down slightly and if you like you can close your eyes,
It just helps us to go a little bit more within and then don't forget to keep a little smile on your face,
Nothing too fake just don't take yourself too seriously so we may be at home in our safe place this is a good time to disrupt our normal life so that we may never be the same again we can thrive in this situation feel some gratitude for yourself for showing up today,
For being here and really are making yourself a great offering let's just let go of any obstacles,
Anxieties,
Frustrations that you may be experiencing so let's take a lovely deep breath in through the nose,
Breathing in and exhaling slowly through the nose and release,
Release what doesn't serve you today,
Breathing in and slowly out the nose just letting go of whatever obstacles there are last one,
Breathing in through the nose and release out the mouth let it slide out,
Let it go coming now to a normal breath the breath finding it in the body feeling that one place where you feel it the most either in the abdomen or the chest or at the nostrils and how is the breath today?
And as we smooth our breath out we understand that by smoothing this breath we send a message to our nervous system that we are not being chased by a lion we are actually okay,
We are doing fine we have an ancient body in a modern world,
Right?
So we communicate with the rest of our body using our breath making it calm and slow breathing normally so we can play a little game with ourselves just observing when the mind gets distracted what do we say to ourselves?
Do we call ourselves crazy or a fool?
Do we think that we failed?
Is this what we have been doing?
But with self-compassion we can reprogram that inner voice and we start by observing when the mind moves and we can identify it even if it seems like a while we can catch ourselves and go,
Oh wow,
Nice,
I have just noticed,
Nice good job,
Nice,
Even if it is just one word,
Nice and then gently bring yourself back as if you are encouraging a puppy dog back to be with you,
To sit with you just in that nice space let's just see how we talk to ourselves and encourage a positive self-talk.
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